Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series I/Volume IV/Donatist Controversy/Answer to the Letters of Petilian, the Donatist/Book II/Chapter 4

8.&#160; said:&#160; "For he who receives faith from the faithless, receives not faith but guilt."

9.&#160; answered:&#160; Christ is not faithless, from whom the faithful man receives not guilt but faith.&#160; For he believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, that his faith may be counted for righteousness.